LSU win silver at green awards
09 April 2009
Liverpool Students’ Union (LSU) claimed a prestigious environmental award at a glitzy awards ceremony this week.
The Sound Environmental Impact Awards is an accreditation scheme to help students’ unions do their bit for the environment. Now in its third year, over a million students have seen environmental initiatives put in place in their unions through the awards. This year, seventy-nine students' unions took part from across the UK.
LSU are amongst the best performing students' unions in the country by gaining a Silver Standard in this year’s scheme. The Silver Standard is new for this year’s Awards. To reach this standard LSU had to meet twenty-two Bronze essential and eleven Silver essential criteria as well as gain an overall score of 400 points. In recognition of their achievement they receive a certificate and an exclusive Silver Standard award made out of recycled wellington boots.
Anna Heywood, Project Founder and Sound Environmental Impact Awards judge, said: “The Unions have really stepped up a significant level this year and have surpassed themselves.”
“It’s great to see how enthusiastically Unions have taken on board environmental improvements and I feel really proud of how far they’ve come.”
The BBC's One Show presenter Hardeep Singh Kohli hosted the event.
